Today in pulp I visit Yugoslavia - the Federal People's Republic of Fun!
Come this way, it's all-inclusive...
Come this way, it's all-inclusive...
Yugoslavia was very much the sophisticated side of socialism: more G-plan than five year plan.
(although rural Yugoslavia could be, er, pretty rural)
Now it's true that Yugoslav architecture could tend towards the brutalist...
...but really Yugoslavia was just like the rest of Western Europe: consumerist, cosmopolitan and in love with Kate Bush.
The best way to get around Yugoslavia was by hatchback - if you could get the pretty ladies off the bonnet that is!
And being a socialist republic Yugoslavia was firmly behind equal opportunities.
Food in the Federal Republic was pretty unique and hard to find anywhere else...
...but it was always washed down with lashings of Cockta: the people's fizzy pop!
Yugoslav fashion was big on comfy knits...
...whilst it's music was an eclectic mix of pop, punk and big synth sounds.
And if there's one thing Yugoslavs loved above all it was home entertainment: they were gadget mad!
Yugoslavia was certainly at the forefront of the home computer boom...
... and its home-produced micro, the Galaksija, was a 4kb marvel: easy to build and fun to use.
A pint and a party is a worldwide language, and in Yugoslavia they spoke it as well as anyone else. They also bought into that whole Paul King scene in 1985, but so did everyone!
And so we say a fond farewell to Yugoslavia: fun, frolicks and just a hint of collective planning!
More pulp trips another time...
More pulp trips another time...
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